John Trudell

미국의 음악 역사 중 지금까지도 잘 알려지지 않은 부분인 ‘인디언 뮤지션의 영향력’에 대한 중요하고 심층적인 이야기를 담은 작품이다. 찰리 패튼, 링크 레이, 지미 핸드릭스, 버피 세인트 마리 등 뛰어난 인디언 뮤지션들을 통해 이들이 미국 음악에 끼친 영향을 보여주며, 마틴 스콜세지, 퀸시 존스, 잭슨 브라운 등 여러 뮤지션들의 흥미로운 인터뷰도 담았다. (2017년 제13회 제천국제음악영화제)

A documentary account by award-winning filmmaker John Ferry of the events that led up to the 1969 Native American occupation of Alcatraz Island as told by principal organizer, Adam Fortunate Eagle. The story unfolds through Fortunate Eagle's remembrances, archival newsreel footage and photographs.

Filmed in 1993 but never completed due to River Phoenix's death, Dark Blood tells the story of Boy, a young widower living on a nuclear testing site in the desert. Boy is waiting for the end of the world and carves Katchina dolls that supposedly contain magical powers. Boy's solitude is interrupted when a Hollywood jet-set couple who are travelling across the desert become stranded after their car breaks down. The couple are rescued by Boy, who then holds them prisoner because of his desire for the woman and his ambition to create a better world with her.

The evolution of the depiction of Native Americans in film, from the silent era until today, featuring clips from hundreds of movies and candid interviews with famous directors, writers and actors, Native and non-Native: how their image on the screen transforms the way to understand their history and culture.

Kili Radio - "Voice of the Lakota Nation" - is broadcast out of a small wooden house that sits isolated on a hill, lost in the vast countryside of South Dakota. It’s a place that’s long forgotten; lying at the crossroads between combat and hope, between the American dream and daily existence on America’s poorest reservation. Yet we find people like Roxanne Two Bulls, who’s trying to start over again on the land of her ancestors; the young DJ Derrick who’s discovering his gift for music; Bruce, the white lawyer who for thirty years has been trying to free a militant who’s been fighting for American Indian rights; and finally John Trudell, an old AIM activist who’s made a career for himself as a musician in Hollywood. Everything converges at Kili Radio. Instead of sending smoke signals the radio station transmits its own signals across a vast and ... (from the webpage)

The film threads together four stories, taking us into the life of a stressed-out Mohawk stockbroker in Manhattan; a young Inupiat girl sent to live with her grandmother in Barrow, Alaska; a Navajo gang member who must find his core values in his reservation on the mesas of New Mexico; and a Quechua healer in Peru, attempting to save a sick child. Each story explores what it means to belong to a specific community. A Thousand Roads is a fictional work, produced by National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) to explore the human context of the NMAI’s collections. The film is striking visually, and presents through its beauty and its stories an imaginative entry into knowing about Native people living in the vast indigenous geography that comprises the Americas. Rather than presenting a conventional historical perspective, the film is composed of short contemporary fictions about individuals, grounding them in emotional truths to which an audience can easily relate.

A chronicle of legendary Native American poet/activist John Trudell's travels, spoken word performances and politics.

A chronicle of legendary Native American poet/activist John Trudell's travels, spoken word performances and politics.

In South Dakota, in an Indian reservation, an old storyteller Indian asks his grandson Shane, who is in trouble owing money to some bad guys, to take his old pony and him to Albuquerque to the great powwow, an Indian meeting. While traveling, Grandpa tells mysterious Indian tales of love, friendship and magic.

This doc explores "The Band" guitarist and songwriter Robbie Robertson's Native American background. Half Mohawk on his mother's side, the film follows him back to the Six Nations reservation in Ontario where he spent summers growing up and picked up his first guitar. The resulting album, "Contact From the Underworld of Red Boy", draws on his childhood First Nation influences and includes musical collaborations wth Native artists such as John Trudell, Rita Coolidge and Buffy Ste Marie.

빅터와 토마스는 작은 도시에서 어린 시절 내내 같이 살았음에도 불구하고 그들에겐 공통점이 없다. 하지만 빅터의 아버지인 아놀드가 죽자 빅터와 토마스는 유골을 뿌리기 위한 여행을 시작한다. 이 여행은 빅터와 토마스에겐 정체성을 찾아가는 방법이다. 우정과 새로운 발견으로 점철된 이들의 여정은 기대하지 못했던, 그리고 잊을 수 없는 유쾌한 추억을 안겨줄 것이다.

숨돌릴 틈 없이 새로운 환자가 밀려드는 뉴욕 시립병원 응급실. 벌거벗은 채 밤거리를 질주하다 쓰러졌다는 환자를 맡게 된 기아는 도무지 종잡을 수 없는 증상에 당황한다. 중년의 나이, 대머리, 심각한 망상증을 보이던 그는 결국 사망하고, 환자의 시체는 물론 그에 관련된 모든 의료기록이 감쪽같이 사라져 버리는 사건이 발생한다. 마약 중독자에 무연고 부랑자로 추정되는 그 환자가 사라진 미스터리에 대해 병원측에서는 아무도 관심을 갖지 않는데...

포레스트 테프트(Forrest Taft: 스티븐 시걸 분)는 애지스에서 불을 끄는 것을 전문으로 하는 석유 장비 직공이다. 그러나 자연을 훼손하고 원주민인 이뉴잇족의 삶을 위협하려는 회사측의 교활한 계략을 알게 된 후, 테프트는 불을 끄는 그의 본분 대신, 반대로 성냥을 그어 그들의 교활한 계획에 불을 붙이기로 결심하게 된다. 비열한 애지스 사장 마이클 제닝(Michael Jennings: 마이클 케인 분)에게 생명을 위협받을 정도의 극심한 갈등을 겪다가, 테프트는 자신의 터전이 파괴되는 것을 강력히 반대하는 미모의 이뉴잇족 행동 대원 마수(Masu: 조안 첸 분)와 합류하게 된다. 테프트와 마수는 그들이 죽의 땅에 와 있는 것을 느낀다. 그러나 기름과 물이 섞이지 않는다는 것과 불과 얼음이 치명적인 조합을 이룰 수 없음을 깨달은 애지스 사장 제닝 또한 자신이 위험한 상황에 처해 있음을 곧 느끼게 된다.

On June 26, 1975, during a period of high tensions on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, two FBI agents were killed in a shootout with a group of Indians. Although several men were charged with killing the agents, only one, Leonard Peltier, was found guilty. This film describes the events surrounding the shootout and suggests that Peltier was unjustly convicted.

On June 26, 1975, during a period of high tensions on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, two FBI agents were killed in a shootout with a group of Indians. Although several men were charged with killing the agents, only one, Leonard Peltier, was found guilty. This film describes the events surrounding the shootout and suggests that Peltier was unjustly convicted.

FBI 요원 레이 르보이는 인디언 문제에는 베테랑인 프랭크 쿠텔을 도와 삶인범을 체포하다록 사우스 다코타로 파견된다. 인디언 혈통인 레이가 사건해결에 도움이 되리라는 상관의 판단 때문. 레이는 처음에는 인디언을 다루는데 능숙한 쿠텔을 잘 따랐으나 파인리치 인디언 보호구역에서의 권력남용과 쿠텔이 지목한 용의자 '지미 두번 보다'가 조작극의 희생양이라는 사실을 알고는 그를 의심하기 시작한다.

Two Northern Cheyenne men take a road trip from Montana to New Mexico to bail out the sister of one of them who has been framed and arrested in Santa Fe. On the way, they begin to reconnect to their spiritual heritage.